The Old Folks Home

[MrsMistyReal]

Good morning everyone,nailed ithope y'all have a nice day

 

[bruceha2000]

Unless you are unlucky enough to land right on a big rock, the bucket shoves them right in.

Like this one? This was a dug post hole, stone about 2' down. Gave up and moved the post location ... and the 2 other holes I'd already dug for the gate.


At least the next time I need to dig a post hole, I have an 8" auger and a tractor.

 

[chickadoodles]

Sonogram on my thyroid is tomorrow at 9. No blood results yet.

 

[microchick]

Sonogram on my thyroid is tomorrow at 9. No blood results yet.

 

[microchick]

We got an inch of well needed rain overnight. Lots of thunder and lightening but luckily no damaging wind or hail.

Nice sleeping with the light show going on outside. I think I laid in bed for 15 minutes just watching the lightening dancing in the clouds.

Now if we would get about 3 more inches things might start to look green again.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Sonogram on my thyroid is tomorrow at 9. No blood results yet.

Thinking good thoughts for a benign finding. Waiting is the worst part.

 

[CapricornFarm]

We got an inch of well needed rain overnight. Lots of thunder and lightening but luckily no damaging wind or hail.

Nice sleeping with the light show going on outside. I think I laid in bed for 15 minutes just watching the lightening dancing in the clouds.

Now if we would get about 3 more inches things might start to look green again.

The rain we had in the last week filled my wheel barrow to the top, and its a big double wheeler! The corn down the road is taller than i, and looks ready to harvest unless it's feed corn.

 

[1muttsfan]

Yes just like that. And you just have no idea how big that rock is - same size as the hole, or 20 times larger. I dug one out once just for fun, turned out to be a big rectangle, around 1 1/2 feet by 3 feet by around 6" deep. It was way too much work, but it is a fine garden wall stone.
Since we were glaciated in times past we find dolomite, granite, limestone, and all kinds of other stones. Some of them are really pretty, others look like old bones.

 

[ronott1]

Yes just like that. And you just have no idea how big that rock is - same size as the hole, or 20 times larger. I dug one out once just for fun, turned out to be a big rectangle, around 1 1/2 feet by 3 feet by around 6" deep. It was way too much work, but it is a fine garden wall stone.
Since we were glaciated in times past we find dolomite, granite, limestone, and all kinds of other stones. Some of them are really pretty, others look like old bones.

Bones of the earth!

It is from skyrim

 

[getaclue]

We've had light rains the past couple days. I haven't had to drain off the pool. Dh is going crazy about our driveway section closer to the house, and he's driving me crazy about it.

Reading the various comments about putting in, and pulling out posts has highlighted something that I've known for quite awhile. Different regions have huge differences in soil types, so there is not a one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to getting it in shape for planting, or for years with too much rain, or years with drought.

Remember when I insisted on a fairly deep layer of clean sand, then putting top soil over that, before we built my chicken coop? Everyone thought I was crazy at the time, but it has paid off, and the chickens, and I are reaping huge benefits from it now. Even our A/C repairman was complaining about his coop, and I let him see mine. Now he's going to do the same thing with his coop.

Dh is having pea gravel brought in to put in the driveway section closer to the house, in our yard. I mentioned that sand, and fill dirt would work much better, just like we did out in the coop. He's been talking with the local neighboring men, and while they're amazed at how my sand/fill dirt has paid off for the coop, they don't think it will work with vehicles driving on it, so everyone is suggesting pea gravel. I've already mentioned that the 3/4 of a mile driveway section out to the main road IS pea gravel. While it's not bad, with all this rain, it's needed more pea gravel added on a regular basis. I keep wanting sand put in, before he brings in the pea gravel. None of them can figure out why I would say that. Of course, none of them are native to this area, like me, either.